HOCKENBERRY, JOHN
Declarations of Independence - War Zones and Wheelchairs
London, Viking. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0670865044). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition, First Pinting. First published in USA in 1995. A clean and unmarked copy VG+ with complete coloured photographic dustjacket VG+. The autobiographical journal of the author, a paraplegic since a car crash aged 19, who became a foreign correspondent and spent two years in the Middle East. He writes with black humour of riding a mule up a hillside in Iraq, having his wheelchair pushed at Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral by a friendly Iranian chanting 'Death to all Americans' and of life as a disabled reporter. NOT EX LIB A1B. Very Good/Very Good.

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Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, War Correspondent in a Wheelchair 0670865044